Architecture
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# 30364
Photographer unknown.
[SOUTH AUSTRALIA] Beaumont House, residence of Sir Samuel Davenport. Beaumont, Adelaide, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, 157 x 210 mm, no photographer’s imprint; laid down on its original 19th-century album leaf of thick card, with a fully contemporary inscription in ink beneath the image on the mount: ‘Beaumont – Sir Samuel Davenport’s residence’; a strong print with lovely tones, in very good condition. For a biography of Sir …
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# 28217
BERRY, Vanessa
[PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY] Mirror Sydney
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo, 2017. Large octavo (245 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers with French flaps, 304 pp, line illustrations; an as new copy. The fascinating essays in this collection are meditations on many of Sydney’s lost or disappearing buildings and sites. ‘In her delicately wrought essays and hand-drawn maps, Vanessa Berry describes her …
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# 25387
WILKINSON, Kenneth (editor)
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Seventy-Five
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1939. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers, unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, a very good copy. Includes articles on art in Tasmania, Australian architecture, Australian artists in London by Alison Rehfisch, Noel Wood, and Illustrations by Unk White, Noel Wood, …
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# 24672
Photographer unknown.
Two snapshot photos of the railway station at Coledale, north of Wollongong, New South Wales, circa 1920.
Two black-and-white photographic prints, each 57 x 82 mm, versos with identifying caption in pencil ‘Coledale Station’; both in fine condition. The South Coast railway line to Coledale, a coal mining village on the coast north of Wollongong, was completed in 1902. The station building, still in current use, was built in 1915.
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# 24752
BRITISH & COLONIAL PHOTO. COMPANY [J. J. H. WEST, manager]
A grand, freestanding, double-storey private residence. Melbourne, 1872-73.
Albumen print photograph, oversize carte de visite format, 65 x 122 mm (mount), 65 x 100 mm (image), verso with back mark of the British & Colonial Photo. Company, 144 Latrobe St. West, Melbourne; the print is a little pale, but is otherwise in very good condition, as is the mount. This photograph of an …
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# 24955
RATCLIFF, Eric
A far microcosm : building and architecture in Van Diemen’s Land and Tasmania 1803-1914
Launceston, Tas. : Fullers Bookshop with Foot and Playsted, 2015. Edition limited to 500 copies. Four volumes, small quarto, pictorial laminated card covers, illustrated, in pictorial slipcase. “A Far Microcosm is a detailed history to 1914 of Tasmania’s architecture, its influences, its construction, and the adaption of forms and building methods to suit the climate …
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# 23765
Photographer unknown.
A pair of very early stereoview photographs of Adelaide streets, circa 1860.
Both views are exceptionally early and are possibly unrecorded. They appear to have been kept together for almost 160 years, as the manuscript captions on both are written in the same contemporary hand. It is likely that the same unidentified photographer was responsible for both views. I. Adelaide, S.A. Rundle St. from Gawler Place, north …
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# 19903
JOHANKNECHT, Susan
Baring antebellum & Bishopsgate within. CITY A.M.
London : Gefn Press, 2010. Octavo (28 x 21cm), publisher’s brown-marbled ledger wrappers, sewn binding, housed in a cream card document folder, 38pp, with red and blue line decorations; ink jet printed onto Zerkall paper, internally pristine, a fine copy. One of 100 copies. “Text derived from research at the Baring Archive, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Marble …
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# 20453
HETZER, William fl. 1850-67
View of Millers Point, Parramatta River from the Flagstaff, Sydney, 1858-59.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with studio label printed in blue ‘Stereoscopic Views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’ and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘Millers Point – Parramatta …
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# 20447
HETZER, William fl. 1850-67
Sydney from Governor Bourke’s statue, on the edge of the Inner Domain, circa 1859.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with contemporary caption in ink ‘Sydney – from the Domain’; both albumen prints are in fine condition, with good tonal range and sharp detail; the mount is free from foxing. This view, looking …
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# 20442
HETZER, William fl. 1850-67
View of George Street, Sydney, showing the Commercial Bank and Bank of New South Wales, 1860-63.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each individual image 80 x 77 mm (arched format), original plain greyish buff mount 84 x 172 mm, verso with studio label printed in blue ‘Stereoscopic Views of Sydney and Environs by W. Hetzer, Photographic Artist, 287 George Street, Sydney, N.S.W.’ and an accompanying contemporary caption in ink ‘George St. / Commercial …
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# 16652
CAIRE, Nicholas J. (1837-1918)
[MELBOURNE] The Benevolent Asylum.
[1877-78]. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 205 mm, laid down on original card mount, 245 x 300 mm, recto with printed caption beneath image: ‘The Benevolent Asylum’; verso with imprint of ‘Anglo-Australian Photographic Company. N.J. Caire, Photo., No. 2 Sherwood Street, Richmond’, and series title and number ‘The Public Buildings of Melbourne and Suburbs. No. 10. …
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# 14673
Church of England. Diocese of Adelaide.
Ceremony of laying the first stone of the collegiate school of St. Peter’s, Adelaide,
by the Lord Bishop of Adelaide, on Thursday, May 24, 1849 … Adelaide : Printed by George Dehane, King William Street, 1849. Quarto, printed wrappers, 6 pp, mild vertical fold line and some corner creasing; ex Webster Collection, with small red stamp and manuscript collection number (2657) to last page; a good copy. Ferguson, 5160. …